Underwhelming FoC 12/08/2013 08:51 AM CST
The fancy hurty thing has given me a chance to get a good look at what Fountain of Creation can do, and I'm a little disappointed. It's taking me 3 77-mana casts at 130% potency (which should be maximum potency, I think? 77*1.3 = 100.1, which is more than the spell's maximum mana level. That's probably not quite how it works, but it's the only thing I can reasonably guess by.) to fully heal myself from this:


Your injuries include...
Wounds to the HEAD:
Fresh External: some moderately deep cuts about the head -- harmful
Scars External: severe scarring about the head -- very harmful
Fresh Internal: a deeply bruised head -- harmful
Scars Internal: an occasional twitch on the forehead -- very harmful
Wounds to the NECK:
Fresh External: deep cuts across the neck -- harmful
Scars External: severe scarring along the neck -- very harmful
Fresh Internal: a severely swollen and deeply bruised neck -- harmful
Scars Internal: a constant twitching in the neck -- very harmful
Wounds to the RIGHT ARM:
Fresh External: deep cuts across the right arm -- harmful
Scars External: severe scarring along the right arm -- very harmful
Fresh Internal: a severely swollen and deeply bruised right arm -- harmful
Scars Internal: a constant twitching in the right arm -- very harmful
Wounds to the LEFT ARM:
Fresh External: deep cuts across the left arm -- harmful
Scars External: severe scarring along the left arm -- very harmful
Fresh Internal: a severely swollen and deeply bruised left arm -- harmful
Scars Internal: a constant twitching in the left arm -- very harmful
Wounds to the RIGHT LEG:
Fresh External: deep cuts across the right leg -- harmful
Scars External: severe scarring along the right leg -- very harmful
Fresh Internal: a severely swollen and deeply bruised right leg -- harmful
Scars Internal: a constant twitching in the right leg -- very harmful
Wounds to the LEFT LEG:
Fresh External: deep cuts across the left leg -- harmful
Scars External: severe scarring along the left leg -- very harmful
Fresh Internal: a severely swollen and deeply bruised left leg -- harmful
Scars Internal: a constant twitching in the left leg -- very harmful
Wounds to the RIGHT HAND:
Fresh External: deep cuts across the right hand -- harmful
Scars External: severe scarring along the right hand -- very harmful
Fresh Internal: a severely swollen and deeply bruised right hand -- harmful
Scars Internal: a constant twitching in the right hand -- very harmful
Wounds to the LEFT HAND:
Fresh External: deep cuts across the left hand -- harmful
Scars External: severe scarring along the left hand -- very harmful
Fresh Internal: a severely swollen and deeply bruised left hand -- harmful
Scars Internal: a constant twitching in the left hand -- very harmful
Wounds to the CHEST:
Fresh External: deep cuts across the chest area -- harmful
Scars External: severe scarring along the chest area -- very harmful
Fresh Internal: severely swollen and bruised chest area -- harmful
Scars Internal: a constant twitching in the chest area -- very harmful
Wounds to the ABDOMEN:
Fresh External: deep cuts across the abdomen -- harmful
Scars External: severe scarring along the abdomen -- very harmful
Fresh Internal: severely swollen and bruised abdomen -- harmful
Scars Internal: a constant twitching in the abdomen -- very harmful
Wounds to the BACK:
Fresh External: deep cuts across the back -- harmful
Scars External: severe scarring along the back -- very harmful
Fresh Internal: severely swollen and bruised back -- harmful
Scars Internal: a constant twitching in the back -- very harmful
Wounds to the RIGHT EYE:
Fresh External: a bruised and swollen right eye -- harmful
Scars External: severe scarring across the right eye -- very harmful
Fresh Internal: a severely swollen and bruised right eye -- harmful
Scars Internal: a constant twitching in the right eye -- very harmful
Wounds to the LEFT EYE:
Fresh External: a bruised and swollen left eye -- harmful
Scars External: severe scarring across the left eye -- very harmful
Fresh Internal: a severely swollen and bruised left eye -- harmful
Scars Internal: a constant twitching in the left eye -- very harmful
Wounds to the SKIN:
Fresh External: a large skin rash -- harmful
Scars External: minor skin discoloration -- very harmful
Fresh Internal: some severe twitching -- harmful
Scars Internal: slight numbness in the arms and legs -- very harmful


I was under the impression that a max-potency cast should "basically guarantee complete healing", but that's clearly not even close to what I'm seeing. Those wounds aren't even particularly severe (granted there's a lot of them), yet it takes three of such casts to heal them all. It's even worse if I have devastating wounds everywhere (no scars)...that took 4 casts (after I already healed my nerves and much of my skin). It looks like an individual cast can only plow through devastating internal and external wounds on about 3 body parts. I have 80 Stamina plus a maximum GoL, and a maximum Refresh to give an idea of what sort of fuel I was working with. All casts (except maybe the last one) took 50% of my vitality and all of my fatigue, plus stunned me.

Does it sound like something's wrong there? It seems rather weak to me.

Thanks,
-Life Sustainer Karthor
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Re: Underwhelming FoC 12/08/2013 04:24 PM CST
>>Does it sound like something's wrong there? It seems rather weak to me.

Well...that is a lot of wounds. Even in pretty gnarly triage situations you're unlikely to have so many wounds, based on there sheer "point value" of what's there.

I'm open to tweaking the spell a bit if others agree it's underwhelming -- on the high end, with a lot of skill, at least. I know it's hard to use at lower skill levels, which is by design, but if other Empaths on the high end find it "meh," then we'll see. Maybe take the discussion over to the main folders?

Now would be a good time to tweak it, if it needs tweaking. :] The formula may have gotten shifted around some during X3.

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